aps269 - palaeobiology

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Decks in this class (19)

Lecture 1 - introduction
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6  cards
lecture 1 - reading notes "fibres and cellular structures preserved in 75-million-year-old dinosaur specimens"
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12  cards
Lecture 2 - the nature of the fossil record
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11  cards
lecture 2 - reading notes "making the best of a patchy fossil record"
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Lecture 2 - reading notes "shape of Mesozoic dinosaur richness"
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11  cards
Lecture 3 - exceptional preservation
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20  cards
Lecture 3 - reading notes "an exceptionally preserved lower cretaceous ecosystem"
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24  cards
Lecture 4 - taxonomy and phylogeny
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17  cards
Lecture 5 - Interpreting past environments
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12  cards
Lecture 6 - functional morphology and behaviour
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12  cards
Lecture 7 - evolutionary patterns from the fossil record
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16  cards
Lecture 8 - Palaeodiversity
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7  cards
Lecture 9 - fossils and the molecular revolution
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16  cards
Lecture 10 - introduction to human evolution and how we study it
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25  cards
Lecture 11 - origin of the hominoidea
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10  cards
Lecture 12 - early Homo
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10  cards
Lecture 13 - Homo erectus - out of Africa 1
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14  cards
Lecture 14 - the origin of modern humans and 'out of Africa' 2
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9  cards
Lecture 15 - evolution of modern humans
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6  cards

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